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that rolled over near southern Utah’s Bryce National Park, killing four people and injuring dozens more.Where the van in Thursday’s accident was coming from and going was unknown. Some Yellowstone roads, including the one south of Old Faithful — the park’s most famous geyser — were still closed after the snowy winter.
The highway where the accident happened south of West Yellowstone, Montana, offers a way to get between Yellowstone and Grand Teton at this time of year, before a north-south route is plowed and the park fully opens for summer.According to the most recent data from the International Trade Administration, 36% of international visitors who arrived to the U.S. by air listed visits to national parks and national monuments as their top leisure activity while in the U.S.Seventeen percent of Yellowstone’s visitors came from other countries in 2016, according to a park visitor use study with the most recent comprehensive data available.
Visitors from Europe and Asia accounted for the majority of travelers from outside the U.S., with 34% from China, 11% from Italy and 10% from Canada.The COVID-19 pandemic changed those numbers significantly, said Brian Riley whose Wyoming-based business, Old Hand Holdings, markets the Yellowstone region in China and runs tours.
“Every Chinese is taught how great Yellowstone is in their elementary school,” Riley said Friday.
The pandemic put a sharp brake on tourism of all kinds but especially from China, which has yet to recover, Riley observed. Now, visits by people already living in the U.S. account for most visits by Chinese, he said., scores of other remaining levies have piled up on businesses.
That’s because companies that buy products made abroad pay the tariffs imposed on them — and, as a result, face higher costs that are typically. Trump has argued that his new duties will bring manufacturing and money back to the U.S. But since so much of what we buy today relies on a global supply chain,
that such sweeping tariffs will mean more expensive prices fromMany businesses (and their customers) are already facing that reality. Here’s some big-name retailers that have recently announced or anticipate price hikes amid the ongoing trade wars: